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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Global warming (and overpopulation) is responsible for the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS), according to a professor at an American college.

Charles Strozier, Professor of History and the founding Director of the John Jay College Center on Terrorism and Kelly Berkell, research assistant at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, wrote a blog piece in the Huffington Post called “ How Climate Change Helped ISIS,” where they argue that a four-year drought in Syria, from 2006 through 2010, “devastated the livelihoods of 800,000 farmers and herders; and knocked two to three million people into extreme poverty.”"If more Americans knew how glacial melt contributes to catastrophic weather in Afghanistan—potentially strengthening the Taliban and imperiling Afghan girls who want to attend school—would we drive more hybrids and use millions fewer plastic bags? How would elections and legislation be influenced?" Tweet This“As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and destroy the militant jihadists known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State,” the two write, “many in the West remain unaware that climate played a significant role in the rise of Syria's extremists.”“Many became climate refugees,” Strozier and Berkell write.

He believes Climate Change is also is contributing to the strengthening of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Forget "Cops", Iraqis have their own popular TV reality/documentary show that features captured terrorists (most members of ISIS) being driven to the scenes of their crimes and asked to explain what they've done. Survivors of bomb attacks around Baghdad are then allowed to confront the responsible individuals.

The show is titled In The Grip Of Justice, and airs every Friday night. The host and producer is Ahmad Hassan. He works closely with the Iraqi Justice Department and anti-terrorist services.

British war photographer John Cantlie who has had the misfortune of being captured twice by the Islamic State (IS) has been starring in some slick propaganda videos produced by ISIS to persuade the Western world not to engage them. They want free reign to take over the world and establish their Islamic Caliphate, starting in the Middle East and environs.

He was captured with John Foley in November 2012, and while Foley was beheaded, Cantlie is still alive.

It started with this video "Lend Me Your Ears" where Cantlie criticizes the British government for abandoning him and not negotiating with IS for his release. He tells us he will "show us the truth" in subsequent videos about the Islamic State, and the truth about how the Western media can "twist and manipulate that truth."

Criticising the US air strikes in Iraq, Cantlie said: “Air power is good at taking out specific targets, but it is not much use at taking and holding ground. For that you need effective and disciplined troops and it is hard to see how this hotch-potch army with a long history of underperforming is going to be any form of credible infantry.”

He also described the Free Syrian Army as an “undisciplined, corrupt and largely ineffective fighting force”, adding that arming Syrian rebels with western weapons was “largely useless” because many end up in the hands of Isis fighters.

It looks as if he is reading from a TelePrompTer or cue cards, and it's hard to tell if these are actually his words, or a speech written by his captors.

We can expect more videos from him.

Who knows what his fate will be, considering neither Britain nor the U.S. negotiate with terrorists.

A week after a French tourist was beheaded in Algeria, a video uploaded by MEMRI shows Moroccan soccer fans of the Raja Club Athletic in Casablanca allegedly chanting "ISIS! ISIS!" Towards the end of the snippet they are heard chanting "Allahu Akbar. Let's go on jihad!"

Monday, September 29, 2014

From all over the world foreign jihadists have been traveling to Syria in droves to join the Islamic State aka ISIS aka ISIL. Ordinary people who have turned radical.

Take Ahmad Salman Abdul Rahim who doesn't believe he's a terrorist but rather doing Allah's will. Quitting his construction job in Malaysia, he made the trek to Syria to join the fighting.

Muhammad, the founder of Islam, once advised a companion to fight in the area that makes up modern-day Syria and predicted that Allah would send an “army of mujahideen” to the region, Ahmad said. He said he’s there to avenge Muslims tortured and killed by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

“We are portrayed as terrorists but I don’t care as this affair is between me and God,” UK-educated Ahmad, 38, said via Facebook messages from near Kfar Zeta in Syria’s Hama region. “Many of the end-of-times battles will happen around Syria. That’s among the reasons why I am here.”

Southeast Asia, like other regions, fears the return of jihadists.

They could return and breathe new life into militant groups in a region with a history of extremism and occasional large-scale terror attacks, and they could radicalize friends and family at home via social media, aided by slick Islamic State promotional videos.

“It is not IS per se that might pose a danger to the region but rather its extreme militant ideology as well as the skills, battleground experience and international networks that Southeast Asian jihadists got from Syria and Iraq,” said Navhat Nuraniyah, an associate research fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies who looks at terrorism and radicalization.

“If even a small minority of them do return, they will be highly respected by existing local groups,” she said. “If they do intend to continue their mission they will have no problem finding recruits and support.”

Then there's Akel Zainal, another Malaysian fighting in Syria. He used to be the drummer with some 1990s pop group.

From Syria he solicits requests from Facebook followers to write their names on mortar shells, printing their names ― as many as five per shell ― next to the words “Malaysian Citizens Together with the Islamic Revolution.”

“US soldiers and other infidel armies usually write down names on bombs that they use on Muslims as a taunt,” Akel wrote on his Facebook page, which showed photos of him walking through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Syrian forces, a gun slung across his back. “Is it wrong then for me to want to taunt them back, these enemies of Allah? It’s my idea, it’s my way of sharing the fervour of the battlefields with my friends. Eat. Pray. Jihad.”

There are estimated to be about 40 Malaysians over there, but that's not definitive.

Malaysia fears the return of jihadists could re-inspire local extremist groups like Jemaah Islamiyah.

Taxpayers just wasted $300,000 on a research study of how "humans interact with bicycles," because it's oh so important to know how to lower our carbon footprint.

Think this was sourced from The Onion or from one of the myriad of other satire sites? Nope. It's woefully true. The National Science Foundation (NSF) conducted the study from October 2009 through June 2013.

The premise for the project, which was conducted between October 2009 and June 2013, was that bicycle dynamics are “poorly understood,” and researchers set out to come up with new designs to encourage more Americans to bike to lower their carbon footprint.

“Although human operator control models exist for numerous aircraft and other vehicles, the bicycle with a rider is a human-vehicle system whose dynamic behavior is poorly understood,” researchers at the University of California, Davis said in a paper publishing their interim results.

The paper said the authors had “deeper questions” about how people control bikes, and argued that no designs in the last century have been made with “desired handling qualities.”

“Even the simplest models of a bicycle with a rigidly attached rider have yet to be completely understood,” the researchers wrote.

“If successful, this research will improve the fundamental understanding of how humans interact with bicycles and will help pave the way to the design of bicycles for a wider population and for a wider range of tasks,” they added.

Apparently, Nolen converted to Islam during his time in the penitentiary in 2011, tried to convert co-workers at the food processing plant where he worked, was fired after he argued in favor of stoning of women, and then returned to the plant where he attacked several women until he was shot by the COO Mark Vaughan.

Now we hear about this, also out of Oklahoma. Jacob Murithi who threatened to behead a co-worker and was fired, was arrested the same day that Alton Jones was. He had told the co-worker that he "represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians." He's in jail on terrorism charges. At least they didn't categorize it as workplace violence.

You have to wonder if this has anything to do with, or was inspired by the thwarted terrorist plot in Australia to behead random people.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Former British Colonel Richard Kemp is not Jewish but he's a fierce supporter of Israel. After thirty years in the British Army experiencing terrorism and extremism up front and personal in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq and other areas in the Middle East he is outraged at the demonization of Israel.

"Israel has no choice but to respond [to Hamas]."

In the video, he discusses the disproportionate obsession with the Gaza conflict as opposed to the horrors occuring in Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, other East African countries, and in Iraq where many Christians have been wiped out, forced to convert or driven out of the country. He criticizes the world for protesting the Gaza conflict while ignoring the killing in those other regions. He blames it on rampant anti-Israel sentiment.

"Israel should not be lectured by any country in the world about its humanity. Israel is an extremely humane country. It's a Western liberal democracy, and it's as strong in its morality, it's as strong in its ethos, as its human ethos, as any other country in the world. Although I'm not Israeli, I'm not Jewish I find it personally insulting to hear Israel abused in this way."

"I believe that the evil of violent Islamic jihad is an evil that faces the entire Western world."

The video is peppered with snippets of news footage from various sources including the son of one of the founders of Hamas, Mosab Hassan Yousef (an Israeli supporter himself) who says:

"The destruction of the state of Israel is not Hamas' final destination. Hamas' final destination is building the Islamic khilafah. Which means an Islamic State on the rubble of every civilization."

Kemp claims that Israel is at the front line of the fight for survival, and they deserve out support, because we can rest assured that we will be next.

It's not just Jews being attacked by Muslim youth in Scandinavian countries. In Copenhagen, Denmark, Arab Christians (particularly women) are being targeted as well.

On this video on YouTube, a Lebanese young woman and Iranian Christian mother discuss what they have been subjected to by local Muslim youth. Both speak about being called Christian whores and told they should be stoned.

During his Sept 26 show, Bill Maher lambastes the misplaced outrage of liberals over the Republican Party's alleged "War on Women" versus their lack of concern over the horrific life women in Muslim majority countries are subjected to.

He almost sounds like a conservative here. Quite something for a liberal atheist.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Radical British Islamic hate preacher Anjem Choudary was just arrested, and although it was way overdue at least he finally was. But prior to his arrest he has been allowed to freely incite violence and hatred towards non-Muslims, with major news networks giving him air time, including Sean Hannity.

Choudary is a vile hate peddler, and proved that during a sound check for an interview back in August with CNN's Brian Stetler on his "Reliable Sources" show. Towards the end of the interview Stetler asked Choudary:

“Here’s what bothers me: when we were setting up for our interview here, the audio engineer asked you to do what every guest does, to count to ten to check the mic, and you started to do that — but then you said 9/11, 7/7, 3/11. Is this all some sort of joke to do that?”

Choudary responded:

“You know, if you had a sense of humor, maybe you would have laughed there." “It was just a soundcheck. You shouldn’t take any of these things that seriously. It’s not a big issue, it’s not a big deal. But if you want to make it a big deal, by all means do so. But it makes you look much more shallow than me.”

Friday, September 26, 2014

Liberal twit Rosie O'Donnell thinks Barack Obama is attacking the Islamic State in Syria because of the country's oil reserves. That's what she said during her stint as co-host on "The View" this past Wednesday. The women were discussing the recent bombings of ISIS targets in Syria, and Rosie piped in with:

“Syria has a lot of oil. A lot of oil. Not a lot of oil in Rwanda or the Congo…atrocities happen there all the time. I don’t know why."

Maybe that's because no Americans have been targeted in Rwanda and the Congo, Rosie. Whoopie Goldberg stated as much, claiming that what usually happens when Americans become targets (I assume in reference to the two journalists who were beheaded) we say "no more" and then added she doesn't think "anyone goes to war gleefully."

Rosie interrupted Whoopie with:

“I don’t think it's gleefully, but I do think there is a financial agenda attached to it."

I remember liberals blaming George W Bush for doing the same thing twelve years ago. I didn't believe it then, and as much as I dislike Obama, I don't believe it now.

But these people are clueless. Rosie at one point said, "You don't fight violence with violence." And most of the comments on the YouTube video of the show concur. What do these people not get? Here is a group that seems to be multiplying like roaches, promising to kill infidels and establish a global Islamic State, and they think we shouldn't try to eradicate them? I have news for Rosie, she and her wife and children would be some of the first to find their heads detached from their bodies. You can't negotiate with religious fanatics who happen to be barbarians.

Remember Matthew Todd Miller, or Miller Matthew Todd as the DPRK state news agency called him? The 24-year-old dolt who upon arrival in North Korea tore up his tourist visa and then shouted he was there to seek asylum? He was arrested, and has since been working 8 hours a day in a prison camp sentenced to 6 years hard labour, but now he wants to go home.

Here are snippets of an official DPRK video posted on YouTube by Russia Today, with videotape of letters he's sent to Michelle Obama, the "Secretary of State", and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since Barack Obama has not responded to his pleas for intervention.

According to the North’s report, which runs to about 1,200 words, Mr. Miller’s acts were done “not because of simple lack of understanding and psychopathology,” but because he was sent by the U.S. to expose North Korea’s human-rights record.

He had hoped to meet Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen who has been held by the North for nearly two years, in hopes of winning Mr. Bae’s release, and then joining forces with Mr. Bae to become human-rights activists after leaving prison, KCNA reported.

To do so, he claimed to have documents about U.S. military bases in South Korea stored on his iPad and iPod, the report said.

Of course, one can't trust anything coming out of the DPRK.

If he did indeed have intentions of exposing North Korea's human-rights records, the kid is an idiot for travelling there- we already know how abysmal they are. Did he really think he'd get away with it? Or he could be a stupid leftist who truly was seeking asylum, and now he's got it, though perhaps not in the manner he had dreamed of, though he is wearing a spiffy hat in the video. And then you certainly don't ask your government for help after you travel, of your own volition, to a hell hole in the hopes of seeking shelter. We don't want you back, darlin.﻿ Or he could be mentally ill, and then you have to feel sorry for him. Trouble is, who knows wherein lies the truth.

Radical hate preacher Anjem Choudary and 8 others were arrested in a counter-terrorism raid in the U.K.

Choudary has been living on the dole in England for years inciting violence and calling for shariah in the U.K. We can thank Choudary for radicalizing many of the UK youth now fighting in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Vice News founder Shane Smith has an exclusive interview with a 21-year-old Somali/Canadian Islamic State militant who warns of an attack on New York city because there are a lot of "brothers" there, mobilizing.

Farah Shirdon aka Abu Usamah Somali made the trek to Syria, is seen burning his Canadian passport, and promises to destroy Canada and the U.S. Though it was thought he had been killed in August, some believe he is in fact still kicking and now in Iraq.

Vice News tracked him down (or someone who purports to be him) via social media and arranged a video conference on September 23, 2014 in Mosul, Iraq. He claims there are at least 10 to 15,000 foreign fighters in Iraq and thousands around the world ready to attack.

Smith asks him who he is fighting right now and Shirdon's response: "the world."

Asked when they will stop fighting among other things- when the black flag flies over the White House.

And he's ready and willing to martyr himself. One can only hope his wish comes true, along with those other thousands of jihadists.

@chelsea_elisa is a young conservative Wisconsin girl who received a huge leftist backlash after she posted a photo of trash on the streets and tweeted the following regarding the hypocrisy of the climate change fanatics who left a huge mess after their New York "People's Climate March" this past weekend.

"Their love for the Earth is so real, they couldn’t even use a trash can."

Some removed their nasty Tweets, but really not surprising they reacted that way.

Apparently, the New York Post referenced her Tweet and it was picked up by other news outlets including the UK Daily Mail and link to the Drudge Report, and after that she received a deluge of responses.

She wasn't the only one calling out the hypocrites, and Think Progress blasted the "right-wing's trashy response" including Breitbart and Gateway Pundit for their criticism.

There aren't many of them on the left who would dare oppose the ruling thought with respect to climate change, but scientist Dr. Caleb Rossiter takes it a step further by calling Barack Obama "delusional" regarding his global warming claims.

As President Obama attends the UN Summit climate summit in New York City, a fellow member of his Democratic Party, who is also a scientist, is publicity [sic] renouncing the Presidents climate change claims as “delusional.” Rossiter reversed his view on man-made climate change and now says belief in a climate catastrophe is “simply not logical.”

Climate Statistics Professor Dr. Caleb Rossiter of American University, is an outspoken anti-war activist, has a flawless progressive record on a range of political issues – and he is a climate skeptic. Rossiter is a former Democratic congressional candidate and he campaigned against U.S. backed wars in Central America and Southern Africa.

In an exclusive interview for the upcoming documentary Climate Hustle, Rossiter, an adjunct professor in American University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, explained how he converted his views from accepting to challenging the so-called “consensus” on climate change after examining the scientific evidence. Rossiter has taught courses in climate statistics and holds a PhD in policy analysis and a masters degree in mathematics.

Some of Rossiter's quotes:

Climate Statistics Professor Dr. Caleb Rossiter of American University: 'Obama has long been delusional on this issue. Anyone who believes we are in a climate catastrophe I think is deluding themselves.'

Rossiter on his conversion to a climate skeptic: 'You are very isolated on the Democratic Party on the left — one is, I am — for having this conclusion of analysis...I would say since 2004 I’ve been very lonely. I’ve been lonely working on the Hill for the Democratic Party.'

Rossiter on Gore's film: 'I think it’s a wonderful teaching tool because it shows how we don't do science. Gore’s irresponsible.'

On Gore winning the Nobel: 'Worst Nobel Prize for peace since Henry Kissinger.'

Rossiter: 'My blood simply boils too hot when I read the blather, daily, about climate catastrophe. It boggles the mind that I could be certain that I know what caused a half degree rise in the last hundred fifty years. It’s simply not large enough to find a physical cause.'

Monday, September 22, 2014

You might know Dr. Zuhdi Jasser from his stint as the narrator on the Clarion Fund's 2008 documentary film "The Third Jihad"- but he's also a medical doctor, a former US Navy officer, a devout Muslim, and a fierce opponent of political Islam or Islamism.

After so many people including Barack Obama, John Kerry, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest have stated that ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and Levant) aka ISIS aka Islamic State is neither a state nor does it represent Islam, Jasser felt compelled to respond.

In the interview below Jasser tells them all to "stop telling us Muslims what is Islamic." He claims ISIS is "the byproduct" of the ideology of oppressive Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama is "burying the reformers from having a seat at the table" by enabling Islamic theocrats.

Jasser wants to reform Islam, to separate mosque and state, he believes Muslims have a problem and they need to "own" it, people like Obama and Kerry are making that very difficult.

It appears the latest project of the hacktivist group Anonymous is ISIS, so they are targeting those countries they believe are aiding and abetting the terrorist group, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. With an added warning to the U.S.

To the citizens of the world,We are Anonymous. The events currently transpiring in Iraq have made us as a collective re-evaluate our priorities in regards to recent operations. The Iraqi people have gone through almost two weeks of sheer terror most of us will never know nor experience. We are held by a code of honor to protect those who are defenseless, both in the cyber world and the real world. Before our inception, the Iraq war was well underway and crimes against humanity were rampant. The United States had no small part in this. When the United States government decided to begin an unnecessary war with the promise of oil and funds to the military industrial complex, it failed to realize the severity of taking out a leader who controlled a strong internal security force. This led to the power vacuum we witnessed after his capture. Yes, Saddam Hussein was ruthless and violent, but with this war, the US was guilty of the same crimes (i.e. Blackwater, Abu Ghraib, etc.). Fast forward to today, and Iraq is descending into chaos yet again thanks to the dastardly ruthless gang aiming to establish an "Islamic" state combining both Iraq and Syria, thus doing away with the post-WWI borders. They call themselves ISIS. These savages who have no religion or morality are bent on burning everything in their path, killing and pillaging as they go. They must be stopped. Several days ago, their electronic division assumed control of one of our twitter accounts (@TheAnonMessage) claiming it for themselves and releasing several graphic photos of their assault near Baghdad. These tweets have since been deleted. We sincerely apologize to the twitter followers who had to witness this without warning. This was an unfortunate, unprecedented takeover and steps have been taken to further secure this account from any future attempted hacks. We would also like to comment on the mainstream media who are pushing the division of Iraqis even further. The Iraqi public is made up of two Islamic sects: Sunnis and Shias. There are also other groups which include Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians, Christians and others. The media would want us to believe that ISIS is made up of strictly Sunnis and the Iraqi army is a majority-controlled and operated Shia faction. This is false. The groups that have been listed INCLUDING Sunnis are enlisted in the Iraqi army and Sunni clerics in Iraq have also called for their followers to join ranks with their Shia brothers to defend their homelands. ISIS is a group made up of a Takfiri sect which is regarded by many prestigious clerics and organizations including Al-Azhar, as unislamic. In fact, they have denounced them as "Khawarij" and declared that they must be exterminated from Islamic lands. This is why we urge the American mainstream media to stop releasing false information and further escalating the violence with their ignorant journalism. In conclusion, we stand by every righteous being when we say that we have also declared complete solidarity against those who affiliate themselves with ISIS and those who control them.

Aljazeera; you have tarnished your reputation by spewing your lies and your treasonous support to ISIS. You will not escape us.

To the state of Qatar, Turkey, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; you will not escape our wrath. Evidence shows your continued support and supply to ISIS. If this does not promptly stop, we will be forced to unleash our entire legion against your pathetic excuse of a cyber-security.

And to the United States; another attempt at fueling your military industrial complex for the sake of security and democracy will be grounds for our complete assault against your virtual government infrastructure. You have been warned. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

Like most liberal, p.c. fools out there- including Barack Obama and John Kerry- Anonymous claims the "savages" have "no religion or morality." They have it right on the lack of morality, but message to Anonymous- just because you don't think they are Muslims or represent the Islamic religion, doesn't make it so. They most definitely consider themselves Muslim, and follow the teachings of Mohammed in great detail.

Here's an exclusive interview on France24 with one member of Anonymous, regarding what motivated them to tackle ISIS through social media.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

One brave Syrian woman filmed life in Islamic State infested Raqqa using a hidden camera.

Under ISIS aka ISIL, the women are now forced to wear niqabs. Although some wear it by choice. Towards the end of the video snippet, the woman enters an Internet club filled with French females speaking to their families, and insisting they will never go home.

Mudar Zahran posted an article on Gatestone Institute detailing the interviews he had with ordinary Gazan civilians. Although the world has condemned Israel for alleged atrocities during the 50 day war, these Gazans confirm that Hamas was responsible for much of the death and destruction.

While the world's media has been blaming Israel for the death of Gazan civilians during Operation Protective Edge, this correspondent decided to speak with Gazans themselves to hear what they had to say.

They spoke of Hamas atrocities and war crimes implicating Hamas in the civilian deaths of its own people.

Although Gazans, fearful of Hamas's revenge against them, were afraid to speak to the media, friends in the West Bank offered introductions to relatives in Gaza. One, a renowned Gazan academic, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that as soon as someone talked to a Western journalist, he was immediately questioned by Hamas and accused of "communicating with the Mossad". "Hamas makes sure that the average Gazan will not talk to Western journalists -- or actually any journalists at all," he said, continuing:

Here are just some of the comments:

"If Hamas does not like you for any reason all they have to do now is say you are a Mossad agent and kill you." — A., a Fatah member in Gaza.

"Hamas wanted us butchered so it could win the media war against Israel showing our dead children on TV and then get money from Qatar." — T., former Hamas Ministry officer.

"They would fire rockets and then run away quickly, leaving us to face Israeli bombs for what they did." — D., Gazan journalist.

"Hamas imposed a curfew: anyone walking out in the street was shot. That way people had to stay in their homes, even if they were about to get bombed. Hamas held the whole Gazan population as a human shield." — K., graduate student

"The Israeli army allows supplies to come in and Hamas steals them. It seems even the Israelis care for us more than Hamas." — E., first-aid volunteer.

"We are under Hamas occupation, and if you ask most of us, we would rather be under Israeli occupation… We miss the days when we were able to work inside Israel and make good money. We miss the security and calm Israel provided when it was here." — S., graduate of an American university, former Hamas sympathizer.

And yet there are still fools, people I know, some of them Jews, who still blame Israel.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Turkey, not surprising. This video, shot via cellphone by some Iraqis in Turkey, shows alleged ISIS fighters riding a tram in Istanbul. Then again, there are some who believe the Turks are aiding and abetting militants who are crossing from their borders into Syria, actually providing shelter and food, weapons and medical treatment.

This was first published on Sept. 11, the 13th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. According to Houston’s KTRK, a photo of a man wearing an Islamic robe with an ISIS logo has been making the rounds on various social media sites and has quite a few people wondering if indeed, ISIS is in America.

KTRK said they’ve been trying to get more information on this but hasn’t had much luck so far.

Back in August 2005, Spiegel Online published an article about an Arab language book written by Fouad Hussein titled "al-Zarqawi - al-Qaida's Second Generation." Hussein's book predicts the future of terrorism, and so far his predictions have been uncannily and frighteningly spot on.

Hussein, a Jordanian journalist who was jailed for a while as a political prisoner, had the opportunity to spend some quality time with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (before he was offed in 2006) and other al-Qaeda leaders, including Egyptian terrorist Seif al-Adl (who is still out there).

Al-Qaeda has a master plan for establishing an Islamic Caliphate, and Hussein shares that two decade, seven phase plan in his book.

The First Phase Known as "the awakening" -- this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby "awakening" Muslims. "The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaida as very successful," writes Hussein. "The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target." The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard "everywhere."The Second Phase "Opening Eyes" is, according to Hussein's definition, the period we are now in and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the "Islamic community." Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaida wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an "army" set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.The Third Phase This is described as "Arising and Standing Up" and should last from 2007 to 2010. "There will be a focus on Syria," prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and -- even more explosive -- in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaida's masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that "the creeping loss of the regimes' power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida." At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

We are currently in the Fifth Phase, and remember this was written back in 2005. Although ISIS is not directly affiliated with al-Qaeda, they still have the same short term goals.

The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

If we don't do something about this now, the following two phases are what we can expect, though it seems we are entering the Sixth Phase, a tad early.

The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of "total confrontation." As soon as the caliphate has been declared the "Islamic army" it will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as "definitive victory." Hussein writes that in the terrorists' eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the "one-and-a-half billion Muslims," the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn't last longer than two years.

The author of this article, Yassin Musharbash, like most fools did not believe back then that al-Qaeda (and other Islamists hellbent on creating an Islamic caliphate) was capable of achieving its goals.

Nevertheless, there is no way the scenario he depicts can be seen as a plan which al-Qaida can follow step by step. The terrorist network just doesn't work like that anymore. The significance of the central leadership has diminished and its direct commands have lost a great deal of importance. The supposed master plan for the years 2000 to 2020 reads in parts more like a group of ideas cobbled together in retrospect, than something planned and presented in advance. And not to mention the terrorist agenda is simply unworkable: the idea that al-Qaida could set up a caliphate in the entire Islamic world is absurd. The 20-year plan is based mainly on religious ideas. It hardly has anything to do with reality -- especially phases four to seven.

I guess he had no idea that new terrorist organizations like ISIS would pop up to implement the last phases. I wonder what he thinks now.

Friday, September 19, 2014

This is what happens to "moderate" or "liberal" Muslims who have the courage to buck the conservative Muslim line.

A Pakistani academic known for promoting liberal views on Islam has been shot dead by gunmen – two years after being accused of committing blasphemy in a speech he made in the US.Dr Muhammad Shakil Auj, Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi, was attacked by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was making his way in his car to a function at the city’s Iranian cultural centre. A junior teaching colleague was also hit and suffered an injury to her arm.“A bullet pierced through his head, proving fatal,” senior police officer Pir Mohammad Shah told the Associated Press. “We are investigating the killing. It would be premature to state the motive at the moment.”The 54-year academic was known as someone who had spoken out on many issues in Islam and written several articles. One of the articles had suggested Muslim women should be allowed to marry non-Muslim men. He had also said Muslim women did not need to remove lipstick or make-up before going to prayer.In 2012, Mr Auj, 54, had complained to police that four colleagues from the university had threatened him and sent him text messages accusing him of blasphemy. They had claimed a speech he had made that year in the US amounted to blasphemy.One of the academics he complained about had previously held his position within the department. The four men face charges but are currently out on bail, according to reports.

Remember those seven young Iranians (including several unveiled women) who were arrested for offending "public chastity" by dancing to Pharrell's hit song "Happy" back in May? Six of the dancers were just sentenced to 91 lashes and 6 months in jail, while the director was sentenced to 91 lashes and a year in jail.

The arrest of the six dancers and one director sparked the hashtag #FreeHappyIranians, and the following day hashtag creator Kambiz Hosseini tweeted that all but the director had been released.IranWire reported on Wednesday, however, that the six dancers in the video have been sentenced to six months in prison and 91 lashes, while the director has been sentenced to one year in prison and 91 lashes.Farshid Rofugaran, the group's lawyer, told IranWire that the sentences have already been suspended, but that he could not be sure of group's fate until he received official notification. Rofugaran said:“A suspended sentence becomes null and void after a certain period of time. When it’s a suspended sentence, the verdict is not carried out, but if during this period a similar offense is committed, then the accused is subject to legal punishment and the suspended sentence will then be carried out as well.”

Though the sentences have been suspended, they have three long years to not make any waves. How nice to live in fear that one wrong move might land you in jail again, along with 91 lashes.

Apparently, the group was not treated well during their incarceration, especially the women.

Shortly after their release three days after being arrested, members of the group spoke out on their harsh treatment while in prison. IranWire reported that a source close to the group said they were interrogated and not permitted to use toilet facilities. The women in the group were also reportedly forced to strip naked and perform squats in front of female guards.

Pharrell had this to say:

"It is beyond sad that these kids were arrested for trying to spread happiness."

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Jihadists fighting for The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have enjoyed beheadings, killings and eating the hearts of their enemies (that was FSA rebel Abu Sakkar last year), so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that some of them like to drink blood of infidels.

Self-claimed ISIS militant Rabie Shehada, known as “the Palestinian slayer,” made the chilling statement in a video recently posted online.“I swear we are a people who love death for the sake of God just as you love to live. I swear we are a people who love drinking blood. We came to slaughter you,” he said in the video.“We love dying for God as much as you love life,” he also said in the brief footage.The 26-year-old militant is believed to be from Nazareth, a city in northern Israel with a predominantly Arab population, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent.

According to the correspondent, he studied mechanical engineering at a college in Nazareth Illit. He reportedly quit university and disappeared three months after joining.It was later found that he went to Turkey and crossed into Syria to join the moderate rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA). He later switched to the radical extremist ISIS, according to the correspondent.In ISIS, he took the nom de guerre of Abu Musaab al-Safouri, after the village of Safouri near Nazareth.

And what else can we expect from a Palestinian male who has more than likely been idoctrintated since childhood into believing that martyrdom is the ultimate goal in life. Screw engineering, much more fun to grab a gun and kill.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Dan Joseph from Media Research Center TV MRCtv gets about 12 students at George Mason University to sign a petition to get Obama to support the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and stop bombing them.

Some of the responses:

Journalist James Foley, who was beheaded, was Mossad.

“Every religion has their moments. I mean, come on, we can — don’t even get me started where the Christians used to, uh, what they did to the non-believers once upon a time.”

Some savvier students were outraged at the petition, but the Democratic Party is counting on those twelve, and other dolts, to vote this November.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Young men from the Somali community in Minneapolis/St Paul have made the trek to Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab, and now women are running off to Syria to join the some 15-20 men fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives who have gone missing in the past six weeks and may have tried to join ISIS, said community leader Abdirizak Bihi. He said that while the reasons for their disappearance were unclear, he had told the families to contact police.

In a separate case, a 19-year-old American Somali woman from St. Paul snuck away from her parents on Aug. 25 saying she was going to a bridal shower. Instead, she flew to Turkey and joined IS in Syria.

And according to the FBI, there could be more recruits.

Greg Boosalis, FBI division counsel in Minneapolis, said law enforcement was investigating the possible recruitment in the area by Islamist extremists of other females, as well as males, but refused to comment on specific cases.“We are looking into the possibility of additional men and women travelers,” he said.Somali leaders and sources close to police worry that the reports of female would-be jihadis from the region could mark a new trend.The St. Paul woman is highly likely to have been recruited by ISIS through Islamist sympathizers in the United States, rather than joining the group on her own, they said. At least one other woman is suspected of helping her leave the United States.

And it's not just from the Twin Cities Somali community. They're being recruited from all over the U.S. John McAuthor McCain, who was killed a few months back in Syria, was a Muslim convert from San Diego. And then this young woman from Colorado.

Another U.S. teenager, nurse's aide Shannon Conley, 19, from Colorado, pleaded guilty this week to trying to travel to the Middle East to enroll in ISIS. She was arrested at Denver International Airport in April with a one-way ticket and had been recruited online by a male militant in Syria.

And that's just the ones we actually hear about. How many more have just slipped away without being detected.

If they're not killed over there, which one could only hope for, they better not be allowed back into this country.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Senator Ted Cruz was speaking at a solidarity dinner for In Defense of Christians (IDC) as part of a conference for Middle Eastern Christians when he was heckled and eventually booed off stage for the following comments:

"Tonight, we are all united in defense of Christians. Tonight, we are all united in defense of Jews. Tonight, we are all united in defense of people of good faith, who are standing together against those who would persecute and murder those who dare disagree with their religious teachings.”“Religious bigotry is a cancer with many manifestations. ISIS, al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Hamas, state sponsors like Syria and Iran, are all engaged in a vicious genocidal campaign to destroy religious minorities in the Middle East. Sometimes we are told not to loop these groups together, that we have to understand their so called nuances and differences. But we shouldn’t try to parse different manifestations of evil that are on a murderous rampage through the region. Hate is hate, and murder is murder. Our purpose here tonight is to highlight a terrible injustice, a humanitarian crisis.”

As the jeers filled the venue, Cruz declared: "I am saddened to see that some here, not everyone, but some here are so consumed with hate." He was interrupted by shouts of "all of us!" and "leave the stage," and one audience member shouted "you speak for yourself."

As the president of IDC Toufic Baaklini tried to calm things down, Cruz finally gave up and left the stage, but not before he told the crowd:

"If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you. Good night, and God bless."

One would think that persecuted Christians could relate and understand the plight of persecuted Jews in the region, but I guess not. Supposedly there were Christians who support Hezbollah and Syria there, some of whom were also speakers at the conference.

Among them were Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Rai, who has defended Hezbollah's right to attack Israel and expressed his willingness to meet with the terrorist group's leader.

Another speaker, Syriac Orthodox Church Patriarch Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, has disclosed that he had a recent meeting with a "high-level delegation from Hezbollah."

Church of Antioch Patriarch Gregory III Laham, who also spoke, has blamed terrorist attacks against Iraqi Christians on a "Zionist conspiracy against Islam" designed to give "a bad image of Islam."

A Zionist conspiracy against Islam? Wow.

Cruz told the Free Beacon:

"I've certainly encountered audiences that disagreed with a particular point of view. But this virulent display of hatred and bigotry was remarkable, and considerably different from anything I've previously encountered.

"The division and anti-Semitism expressed tonight by some of the crowd is not reflective of the teachings of Christ, and is in fact directly contrary to the tenets of Christianity."

But not everyone is outraged about the anti-Semitism Cruz encountered. Even some on the right, and plenty on the left have criticized Cruz for his pro-Israel comments, claiming it was politics. Some even believe the audience was booing the politics not the comment itself, like Matt Lewis on The Daily Caller. But if one of the speakers believes in a Zionist conspiracy against Islam, it's quite obvious the reasons behind all of the booing. There are Christian anti-Semites- take Jimmy Carter, for instance.

A few Arab nations are finally joining forces with the West to fight the spreading hordes of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). From the air.

It's about time they all take action, considering it's their back yard. They need to be active participants, and take the lead with the West offering back up. But that 'aint gonna happen.

The Obama administration said Sunday that “several” Arab nations had offered to join in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, but any sustained military campaign does not appear imminent, and likely will require an even more significant commitment from other nations and fighting forces in the region.

In interviews and public statements, administration and military officials described a battle plan that would not accelerate in earnest until disparate groups of Iraqi forces, Kurds and Syrian rebels stepped up to provide the fighting forces on the ground. Equipping, training and coordinating that effort is a lengthy process, officials cautioned.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

So Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change posted a video on 9/11/14 of an interview with a man named Ricki, an alleged survivor of 9/11 who claims he had some "explosive" new photos that he'd lived with for 13 years. Saturday was the day those photos would be released. One can only assume that since Rudkowski is a conspiracy theorist, 9/11 Truther those photos would be, well, EXPLOSIVE. Well, they're not.

You might be wondering what exactly these nut jobs think is so important about a bunch of photos that show nothing out of the ordinary. Well, this is where it gets interesting. There isn't even a common consensus on what they actually believe happened.

The various loony theories range from the relatively simple, blame it on the U.S. government:

BodaBoom BigAl2 days agoThe terrorists were "allowed" to do this. It was a set-up to implement the misnamed Patriot Acts, er Traitorous Acts!﻿

Then there's those who blame it on Israel/Mossad/The Zionists:

upsideadown2 days agoYou mean Israeli terrorists.﻿

SlackerSlayer2 days ago It would be far more accurate to say 'zionnazis dressed up as Arabs" doing terror.﻿

Steve McCoy2 days agoget cancer and DIE jewSCUMTROLLLLLL. We KNOW israHELLL did 911 and WILL pay.....sooooooooon.﻿

There are those who don't believe the Osama Bin Laden narrative:

6. People whose beliefs are often strongly influenced by the beliefs of the vast majority, and who are under the impression that the vast majority of the civilized world accepts the bin Laden story as fact.﻿

Then there's the uber-wackos who actually believe there were no planes, or that they were holographs, and that the whole tragedy was a Hollywood event:

tonoklein2 days agoThat's right, when you got nothing, call people names. Sure sign of a brilliant argument. But hey keep believing known liars/actors/millionaires on TV who want you dead.﻿

Steve McCoy1 day agoOr read the affidavit of aviation expert John Lear - FACTUAL proof NO planes were used on 911. He is the son of Bill Lear, as in Lear jets. The planes were a jewllywood fake movie.﻿

Then there's the 'racism' factor:

MixmanD282 days agoYes, isn't it amazing that some jerks prefer to believe "facts", instead of racist notions of what a terrorist is?﻿

Here's the holograph, no airplane comments from the We Are Change website:

JamesOrrSeptember 14, 2014

He alluded to the fact that these were not planes, but anti-gravity aircraft pulling impossible maneuvers. We know there were holographic projectors on-board these aircraft giving the outward appearance of planes. I was expecting to see the aircraft in these photos.

And there's the less crazy conspiracy theorists turning on the more lunatic ones:

Kv
September 14, 2014

You “no plane” idiots are going to ruin the whole truth movement and you don’t even care.

Michael Clarke
September 14, 2014

YOU are the “idiot”, here, mate. The point is valid. There is NO debris from any crash jetliner(s) here. No fuselage, no portions of wings , tails, engines, NOTHING But the structural damage is VERY similar to the Oklahoma City federal building bombing. There is AMPLE physical evidence here to support the supposition that these buildings collapsed in accordion fashion DUE TO INTERNAL EXPLOSIVE CHARGES DETONATED INSIDE THEM

Kv
September 14, 2014

Even if your theory is plausible (which it’s not, I know people there who saw the f-ing planes) no one will believe it because it’s TOO out there. We are just now getting people to admit something is amiss with building 7. You are stupid little fish being reeled in and guided by disinfo agents here to muddy the waters and make ANY conspiracy theorists look like fucking nut jobs. And quite successfully too I might add.

I was called a paid shill, among other things, for my comment on YouTube, as you can see in some of those comments above.

It truly amazes me how many of them are out there. Walking this earth. Convinced that it's the U.S. government, or Zionist Israel, or Hollywood behind every world event. Yikes.

The Peres Center for Peace sponsored an interfaith soccer match between young Palestinian and Israeli kids. Great, right? However, the effort to promote coexistence on a kibbutz in southern Israel was met with anger by Palestinian Authority (PA) officials who called it "a crime against humanity."

And these are the folk who are supposed to be moderates.

Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and the head of the Palestinian Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, said the match represented “an Israeli attempt to cover up their crimes against [Palestinian] athletes,” according to a Palestinian Media Watch report released Monday.“Any activity of normalization in sports with the Zionist enemy is a crime against humanity,” Rajoub said in a September 6 Facebook post.The match, the first of a planned series, was hosted by the Peres Center for Peace on September 1 as an effort to build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian youths after a fraught summer of war with Gaza and West Bank tensions.

Not only that, Abd al-Salam Haniyeh, who is a member of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, wants the Palestinians involved with the effort to help Palestinian and Israeli kids to get along punished.

“The [Palestinian] organizers of this match betrayed the blood of the children of Gaza and of the martyrs, which has yet to dry a week after the end of the barbaric Israeli aggression."

“Immediately interrogate the organizers of the match, settle the account with them and prosecute them on charges of serious treason against the blood of the martyrs [who died in the Gaza conflict] and violating the decisions made by the Palestinian sports community’s leadership."

Over 600 Israeli and Palestinian kids are scheduled to take part in these interfaith soccer matches.

More than 600 children from Israel and the Palestinian territories will take part throughout the year in the Twinned Peace Soccer Schools events. The program creates “twinned” relationships between Israeli and Palestinian cities. Sderot and the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, both down south close to the border with Gaza, are twinned with the Palestinian town of Yatta, which is located south of Hebron in the West Bank.

The tragic thing is that the children are open and willing.

“I love it when we play together like this. I hope that one day there will be peace between Arabs and Jews and that there will be no more wars and death,” a Palestinian boy told AFP after the first event.

They have their parents to thank for the lack of peace in that region.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Krav Maga is an Israeli self-defense martial art form developed for the IDF. Even though there are at least 5 training centers within a 20 mile radius of where I live, and it's been around for years, the Iranians are only now warning of a 'zionist' plot to spread it worldwide.

Mashregh News, which is close to Iran’s security and intelligence organizations, reported that Israel is secretly promoting Krav Maga in Europe and North America for “unknown purposes.”According to Mashregh, Israel has previously kept the existence of Krav Maga, which the site described as a dangerous martial art of “Zionist Jewish origin,” under wraps.“Why, after nearly a century of [Krav Maga] being kept quiet and limited to the boundaries of this regime, it is suddenly being promoted, is a question that has drawn the attention of experts,” it said.The news site claimed that Krav Maga is the dominant sport in Israel, and is taught to the military, police, Mossad, and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).“Jewish settlers in the occupied territories” are also given serious training in Krav Maga, it reported, adding that the martial art is designed to cause maximum damage and cripple an opponent, lacking “tolerance and compassion.”Krav Maga is also practiced by “women Zionists,” and is used in war and against “resistance groups,” the latter being a reference to Palestinians, it said.

Apparently, it has only come to light since Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's interest in Krav Maga.

That same new site promotes other wacky conspiracy theories.

The news site regularly features articles accusing Israel and Hollywood of various covert plans for world domination. In 2012, it wrote that the two were working together to promote homosexuality as part of a global scheme to subjugate humankind in a plot based in Tel Aviv, which Mashregh described as the “gay capital of the world.”

Now wait for all the local, western, anti-Israel conspiracy theorists to jump on that bandwagon.

Friday, September 12, 2014

So a teacher at McKinley Middle School in Washington DC gave his class an assignment: compare and contrast Hitler with George W. Bush with Venn diagrams.

It seems the class was studying war and peace, and the unidentified instructor at McKinley Middle School sent the class home to pore over the histories of "both men who abused their powers."

Parents got wind of it, and the district issued a quick mea culpa, the Washington Post reports. "The teacher deeply regrets this mistake, and any suggestion to malign the presidency or make any comparison in this egregious way," says a spokeswoman for DC schools. The teacher, she adds, acknowledges "extremely poor judgment" and will apologize to his students.

Now, imagine if this teacher had asked them to compare and contrast Hitler with Barack Obama? What do you think would have happened to the teacher. Pink-slipped. Yeah, I know he's a sitting president, but still. An apology would not have sufficed.

More Muslim hypocrisy. All those young British women who have run off to join ISIS in Syria are running brothels as part of a 'police' force in Raqqa where Islamic State militants are raping captured Iraqi women. Islam does not allow pre-marital sex, that's considered 'adultery' punishable by stoning, but hey, it's okay as long as the women are not Muslim.

As many as 3,000 Iraqi women have been taken captive in the last two weeks by the terror group.Sources suggest that members of the all-women al-Khanssaa Brigade in Raqqa, Syria, are running brothels to satisfy the fighters’ desires.One said: “These women are using barbaric interpretations of the Islamic faith to justify their actions.

[snip]

“The Yazidi people are being ethnically cleansed, and their women are being subjected to the most brutal treatment.“It is the British women who have risen to the top of the Islamic State’s sharia police and now they are in charge of this operation."It is as bizarre as it is perverse.”

There are estimated to be at least 60 female Brits in Syria, and they are persuading others to join them.

The different ways to heaven through jihad include, terror jihad, love jihad, rape jihad, and now cricket jihad.

The cricket jihad is in reference to the Muslim Pakistani cricket player, Ahmed Shehzad, telling Sri Lankan Buddhist Tillakaratne Dilshan to convert to Islam if he wanted to go to heaven after a recent game. It was caught on camera.

Shehzad said:

"if you are a non-Muslim and you turn Muslim, no matter whatever you do in your life, straight to heaven."

One can assume Dilshan responded heck no, because Ahmed then told Dilshan:

"Then be ready for the fire."

I think one can say with certainty that there's a huge contingency of Muslims who will be getting a one way ticket to hell when their time comes.

Apparently Dilshan's father is a Muslim, but he and his siblings chose to follow their mum's religion, and he eventually changed his name from Tuwan Mohamed to Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan, which is Sinhalese-Buddhist.

I'm surprised Ahmed didn't tell him he should be executed for apostasy. In Islam, unlike most other religions, the children are considered Muslim if the father is.

BILL MAHER: I saw Howard Dean on TV the other day and he said something along the order, he said the people in ISIS -- he said I'm about as Islamic as they are, you know, distancing the vast numbers of Islamic people around the world from them. That's just not true.CHARLIE ROSE: It is true.MAHER: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between -- ROSE: Behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical?MAHER: Let me finish.ROSE: I was doing that. MAHER: There are illiberal beliefs that are held by vast numbers of Muslim people that --ROSE: A vast number of Christians too.MAHER: No, that's not true. Not true. Vast numbers of Christians do not believe that if you leave the Christian religion you should be killed for it. Vast numbers of Christians do not treat women as second class citizens. Vast numbers of Christians --ROSE: I agree with that --MAHER: -- do not believe if you draw a picture of Jesus Christ you should get killed for it. So yes, does ISIS do Khmer Rouge-like activities where they just kill people indiscriminately who aren't just like them? Yes. And would most Muslim people in the world do that or condone that? No.ROSE: No.MAHER: But most Muslim people in the world do condone violence just for what you think. ROSE: How do you know that?MAHER: They do. First of all they say it. They shout it.ROSE: Vast majorities of Muslims say that?MAHER: Absolutely. There was a Pew poll in Egypt done a few years ago -- 82% said, I think, stoning is the appropriate punishment for adultery. Over 80% thought death was the appropriate punishment for leaving the Muslim religion. I'm sure you know these things. ROSE: Well I do. But I don't believe -- MAHER: So to claim that this religion is like other religions is just naive and plain wrong. It is not like other religious. The New York Times pointed out in an op-ed a couple weeks ago that in Saudi Arabia just since August 4th, they think it was, they have beheaded 19 people. Most for non-violent crimes including homosexuality. ROSE: I know that they cut the hands off the thief.MAHER: Right, okay, so we're upset that ISIS is beheading people which we should be upset about but Saudi Arabia does it and they're our good friends because they have oil. Okay. But they do it too. This is the center of the religion. I'm not saying -ROSE: But they're now fighting against ISIS too. They're joining us in the fight. As is the Emirates. As is Jordan. They are all Muslim countries.MAHER: Well, they are both fighting ISIS and they are for ISIS.ROSE: Well, it's not the government. I mean, some of them --MAHER: Certainly the governments.ROSE: It's a bit like today about Qatar. The big story today in The New York Times about Qatar. And some guy there is supporting, who is a Muslim --MAHER: But I mean in Mecca where infidels, non-Muslims, are not even allowed in the holy parts of the city. I mean, right there, we don't have that example in other religions. They do behead people. Now if they were beheading people in Vatican City, which is the equivalent of Mecca, don't you think there would be a bigger outcry about it? So this is the soft bigotry of low expectations with Muslim people. When they do crazy things and believe crazy things, somehow it's not talked about nearly as much. ROSE: Would you come to the table and debate this with a moderate Muslim?MAHER: Find one, yes. Find one.ROSE: I promise you I'll find one.MAHER: Find a Muslim -- ROSE: I do believe that what we see with ISIS is not representative of -- MAHER: As I said, connecting tissue. ROSE: -- not representative of the Islamic religion. I don't think the Koran teaches them to do these kinds of things. MAHER: Well you're wrong about that. The Koran absolutely has on every page stuff that's horrible about how the infidels should be treated. But for example again ISIS says that they should perform genital mutilation on all women 11-46. Would most Muslims agree with that? No. Or carry it out? No. But as Ayaan Hirsi Ali points out, she says --ROSE: I wouldn't expect for her to -- MAHER: And she would know better than --ROSE: Exactly.MAHER: But can we really say --ROSE: She's been a victim.MAHER: -- women are treated equally in the Muslim world? I mean, their testimony in court is very often counted as half. They need permission to leave the house in some places. ROSE: But a lot of moderate Muslims would say in fact one of the things that we need to modernize is the idea of the way we treat women. MAHER: But in this country, if you just use the wrong word about women, they go nuts. And all these other countries --ROSE: As they should. MAHER: -- they're doing things like making them wear burqas and I hear liberals say things like, 'they want to.' They want to. They've been brainwashed. It's like saying a street walker wants to do that.

Many of the 50,303 illegal unaccompanied immigrant children that have found their way into our country from central America are now being enrolled in schools across the country. Those kids have not been medically screened, so who knows what diseases they might pass on to our kids, including dreaded tuberculosis.

The Obama administration has sent none of these children home. Instead, federal officials have chosen to set aside normal immigration practices and to allow this wave of young illegal immigrants to apply for green cards via asylum applications and to disperse across the country. (RELATED: Obama Hides Steady Inflow Of Central American Migrants)

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

This GQ article has to be one of the most harrowing, disturbing stories I have ever read, and I had no idea this was going on.

You hear about sexual assault in the military, but it's almost exclusively women in the service, but apparently over 50 percent of the victims of military sexual trauma (MST) are actually male.

According to the Pentagon, thirty-eight military men are sexually assaulted every single day.

You never hear about it because it's rarely reported. The article goes into depth as to the reason why, and some of those reasons are so incredibly outrageous, including the fact that these people are victimized twice- by their rapists and then by a system that fails them. Big time.

But shame isn't the only reason these men so often say nothing. Another is fear—of physical retaliation, professional ruin, social stigma. Research suggests that the military brass may have conspired to illegally discharge MST victims by falsely diagnosing them with personality disorders. "The military has a systemic personality disorder discharge problem," write the authors of a 2012 Yale Law School white paper. Between 2001 and 2010, some 31,000 servicepersons were involuntarily discharged for personality disorders. It is likely that in many cases these were sham diagnoses meant to rid the ranks of MST victims. "If they want you to be schizophrenic," says Trent Smith, an MST survivor currently fighting his discharge from the Air Force, "you're schizophrenic." These diagnoses also spare the government the costs of aftercare: The VA considers a personality disorder to be a pre-existing condition, so it won't cover the expense of treatment for PTSD caused by a sexual assault.Above all, MST victims keep quiet because they do not believe their attackers will be punished. And they're almost certainly right. The conviction rate in MST cases that go to trial is just 7 percent. An estimated 81 percent of male MST victims never report being attacked. Perhaps it should astonish us that any of them do.

GQ interviewed 23 victims, along with mental health professionals, military officials and lawmakers.

The Irish Mirror has a short article about all the recent photos being posted by ISIS regarding the children of the caliphate- kids as young as 10 posing in front of crucified bodies, holding severed heads.

And here's a story about another jihadi kid, an Aussie, and his decapitated head.

And they start them young, as evidenced by this photo of a pink-cheeked toddler posing with a Kalashnikov in front of an ISIS black flag.

Monday, September 08, 2014

In an opinion piece on Al Arabiya, UAE entrepreneur Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor skewers everyone from Barack Obama to Britain's David Cameron, and all the Arabs that are part of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) for the less than impressive and inept manner with which they are dealing with the rise of ISIS, or as he calls them- psychopaths and cockroaches preferring death to life. I started reading the piece expecting to be annoyed, but he pretty much nails. it. Well worth a read.

Our planet is experiencing unprecedented man-made crises. Like me, people everywhere are asking, “What’s happening to our world?” We look at those leaders and think, if these are the people responsible for protecting our lives, then God help us.

[snip]There are no heroes in this unfolding script; only rogues, wimps and fools marching us towards ArmageddonA gang of losers seeking power, wealth and territory decide to dupe feeble-minded young Muslims with the promise of an Islamist State; a Utopian land stretching from Syria to Iraq and eventually encompassing Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where flogging, stoning, beheading, crucifying and burying children alive are accepted norms. In this supposedly “magical caliphate” women, recognizable only by their eyes, are barred from leaving home without a close male relative. Televisions are smashed. Schools are forbidden to teach music, art and philosophy. Smokers are lashed in public. Landmarks are painted black to match the group’s fluttering flags.

"Sharia police" in Germany. More radicals roaming the streets of European cities. This time in Wuppertal- a small city in North Rhine-Westphalia.

A group of radical young Islamists has recently caused concern on the streets of a German city. The "Sharia police" have been observed trying to deter young Muslims from doing things like drinking or gambling.

Police in Wuppertal are seeking ways to stop the group of men who have been seen patrolling the area around the western city's main train station on several evenings recently. The bearded fundamentalists have declared the sleazy nightlife area of the city of 340,000 to be a "Sharia Controlled Zone."

The young men, who are followers of Salafism, a puritanical form of Islam, walked around the area in orange traffic safety vests with the words "Sharia police" written in English on the back.

They have also been observed distributing leaflets urging people to refrain from alcohol, drugs, gambling, attending concerts, watching pornography or visiting prostitutes.

But the government is striking back. Apparently, the 33-year-old who is behind the patrols, though he claims they're not actually patrols, is Muslim convert, ex-firefighter Sven Lau aka Abu Adam. More on that here.

Sunday, September 07, 2014

Geert Wilders gave an impressive speech to the Dutch parliament with a workable solution for the ISIS/Radical Islam war against the rest of the world, at least when it comes to his country.

In the video he blames the 'elite' for the current trouble with Muslims in the Netherlands, admonishing them for wasting 10 plus years doing nothing about the problem. And there seems to be a major one. Wilders tells them:

"According to a study 73% of all Moroccans and Turks in the Netherlands are of the opinion that those who go to Syria to fight in the jihad are "heroes"- people to be admired."

After 9/11 he says that:

"..three-quarters of the Muslims in the Netherlands condoned this atrocity."

According to Wilders, that's hundreds of thousands of Muslims condoning terrorism in his country, and calls it a ticking time bomb.

He then Quotes from the Quran to prove his point that the Quran is a handbook for terrorists, and a "hunting permit" for millions of Muslims. Essentially "A license to kill."

Surah 8, Verse 60:Prepare to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah.Surah 47, Verse 4:Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks.Surah 4, Verse 89:So take not friends from the ranks of the unbelievers, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them.

He says this is not a clash of civilizations, but rather a clash between barbarism and civilization.

In a video address to Barack Obama, Brother Rachid- a Moroccan-born former Muslim turned Christian, whose father is still an Imam- explains that ISIL aka ISIS now known as Islamic State (IS) along with al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Taliban, al-Shabaab and all the other Muslim terrorist groups that exist throughout the world are not an aberration, but are closely following the teachings of Mohammad, from the way they dress to their penchant for beheading.

He talks about how as a young boy he was taught to hate all non-Muslims, especially the Jews and Christians.

"ISIL speaks for Islam."

He tells Obama that

"unless the Muslim world deals with Islam and separates religion from state, we will never end this cycle. Until you deal with the root of the problem, we'll be just dealing with the symptoms. ISIL is just one symptom, if it disappears other ISILS will be born under different names."